John Bengel Commentary - Romans 11:21 - 11:21

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John Bengel Commentary - Romans 11:21 - 11:21


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Rom 11:21. Μήπως) Repeat, φοβοῦ.-φείσεται) The Indicative, the particle μήπως being here in a manner disregarded, [by the Indie, instead of the subjunctive, the regular mood after μὴ] has a more categorical [positive, unconditional] force. Baumgarten would rather read φείσηται with μήπως. But Mart. Crusius shows, that ἵνα, ὡς, ὃπως, υὴ, are sometimes joined with the future indicative, Gram. Gr. Part I. page 867, and beside other examples, he specifies that passage of Demosthenes, ὅπως τὰ παρόντα ἐπανορθωθήσεται. Blackwall has collected other examples in the Sacred Classics, p. 432, ed. Woll., where he praises this very passage of Paul on account of its elegance. Certainly language, framed, as this is, rather categorically, tends to excite fear [more than conditional or potential language, as φείσηται would be.]